Posted on 10/09/2004 6:31:26 AM PDT by RMrattlesnake
Nice essay.
The only thing I think that needs to be added to your summary is the fact that our founding fathers did not believe in 'natural liberties' as expressed in the philosophies of enlightenment and manifested in the French Revolution.
The perfect law of liberty existed within the sacred law and the 'blessings of liberty' could be manifested only if government was set up so that justice and security would prevail.
A strong Federalism and divided government in its many checks and balances was the direct result of the Biblical doctrine of total depravity and in direct opposition to all other forms of philosophy or theology that teach that man is inherently good.
Mankind can experience freedom not in some 'natural state' but rather when government is sufficiently safeguarded against the depravity of man and the depravity of man is justly punished.
BTW, how to you reply to more than one poster? I don't know how to do that.
BTW, how to you reply to more than one poster? I don't know how to do that.
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